单词 | flogger |
释义 | floggern. 1. One who flogs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who beats beater1483 lambacker1593 breecher1611 trouncerc1630 flaybreech1671 flogger1708 drubbera1721 thrasher?1853 swisher1884 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. xxi. 93. 1713 Doctor no Changeling 13 Doctor Busby, the Famous Flogger of Westminster. 1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel II. vi. 145 The common gaol, where a public flogger attends. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 208 (note) Dr. Parr was quite as distinguished a flogger as a scholar. 2. slang. A horse- or riding-whip. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip wandc1400 rod?a1475 riding rod?a1549 switch1597 quirka1616 whippet1616 shambrier1667 horsewhipa1691 whip-stick1782 lash-whip1787 flogger1789 string1839 nagaika1842 whalebone1842 quirt1845 switcher1847 ash-plant1850 hunting-crop1857 dick1864 bow-whip1890 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 173 Whip. Flogger. 1795 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (ed. 2) Flogger, a whip. 18.. Sporting Times (Barrère) Compared with the light and elegant floggers of the present day, it is a heavy, common ‘riding companion’. 3. A kind of tool (see quot. 1884). ΚΠ 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 348/2 Flogger, a bung~starter. An instrument for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1708 |
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